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Graduate Why did neutrino decoupling occur before photon decoupling?

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Undergrad What Could We See If We Observed the Big Bang with a Powerful Telescope?

  • Abbas Ibn Firnas
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Behind the border of the universe

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Graduate Alternative interpretation of relativity with consciousness as universe's boundary

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Graduate Could Changing Gravitational Constant Explain Hubble's Law Alternatives?

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Graduate What Are the Leading Theories on Dark Energy?

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Comet Impact on Earth May 25th - Is It True?

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High School Why do Neutron Stars have a Magnetic Field?

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Undergrad How do accretion disks provide evidence for black holes?

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Undergrad Can Two Equal-Mass Planets Share a Satellite?

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High School Stoping the desturaction of the sun?

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Graduate Evolution of the Observable Universe

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What is the significance of the astronomical buckyball?

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Graduate Why do we live in a Friedmann universe?

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Undergrad Does gravity explain all orbits in our solar system?

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Graduate Rates of galactic evolution (first 3 billion years)

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High School My First Telescope Observation: Jupiter & 4 Moons

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Could dune-boarding be possible on Titan's dunes?

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Graduate Estimating radiative cooling in high-temperature rocket exhausts

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Graduate How do we know that the expansion of the universe is radially symmetric?

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Graduate How do metaphysics theories explain the expanding universe?

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Graduate The Issue of the Beginning (new paper by Ashtekar)

  • marcus
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Undergrad Possible Explanations To Fermi's Paradox?

  • Gold Barz
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Graduate ASCL.net - Astrophysics Source Code Library

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Graduate Diagramming the observable universe with tangent circles

  • Hulse
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Graduate Why do $\Lambda$CDM and Milne cosmologies predict the same universe age?

  • Garth
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Graduate Escape velocity of a body from a black hole.

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Graduate Is the universe a 3D manifold living in 4D space?

  • pivoxa15
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Undergrad Did ancient Greek myths encode knowledge of the Big Bang?

  • Euric
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Graduate Is Venus retrograde or upside down, and what does the 178° tilt mean?

  • DaveC426913
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High School Is Alpha Centauri, the closes star to the solar system?

  • the Physic freak
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High School Why does Earth rotate counterclockwise when viewed from above the North Pole?

  • Raza
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High School Is the Universe Really Spherical? And What Lies Beyond?

  • Delzac
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Graduate 'Cyclic universe' can explain cosmological constant

  • scott1
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Graduate Are Trojans possible for other planets besides Jupiter?

  • Nereid
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Graduate Finding Water on the Moon: A Proposal for an Experiment

  • CosmologyHobbyist
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High School What are Some Beginner-Friendly Books on Cosmology and General Relativity?

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Undergrad How do they measure the CMB temperature?

  • touqra
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Undergrad Could life exist if atomic stability were slightly different?

  • Dook
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Stargazing What Can You Capture in the Night Sky with Jupiter, Saturn, and Comet Photos?

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Graduate Why is my paper very difficult to be published?

  • yuwingsin
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Graduate Infinitely small and infinitely large

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Undergrad Is a Manned Mission to Mars Beneficial for Scientific Advancement?

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Graduate What is the current understanding of the origin of the universe?

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Graduate Can We Understand Axis Tilts in Planetary Systems?

  • marcus
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Graduate What heated the early universe to 1000 trillion degrees?

  • batboy
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Graduate Radiation, propulsion and timescales for human Mars missions

  • wolram
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Graduate Radio Waves emitted by Black Holes

  • DeepThunker
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Graduate Alternative theories about the origin of the universe

  • Philippe
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Undergrad Gravitational slingshotting

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High School Would you see thousands of ships in trans-lunar orbit from Earth?

  • MonstersFromTheId
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Graduate Is the Hubble Constant Constant?

  • kmarinas86
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Graduate Do solar neutrinos really change flavor?

  • Michael Mozina
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Graduate Some questions regarding WIMPs as a DM candidate

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Graduate Acceleration due to the solar wind

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Graduate Does time dilation change the universe's age for fast-moving particles?

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Undergrad Why do most planets orbit in roughly the same plane?

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Graduate How does repulsive gravity affect spacetime geometry?

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Stargazing Where should I start with astrophotography equipment?

  • Life|Time
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Graduate Is a Methane-Molecule-Like Solar System Stable?

  • neutrino
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Strike deathray from list of concerns?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Undergrad Why does a star's gravitational force increase when it becomes a black hole?

  • jasc15
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Undergrad Relation Between Areas of Astronomy

  • Michael Mozina
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Graduate Accelerating expansion and the Cosmological Constant

  • Royce
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Graduate Congratulations to Christine on the new paper

  • marcus
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Graduate Could a 150-year comet have perihelion between Mercury and Venus?

  • DaveC426913
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Undergrad Are we going in a particular direction?

  • Silverbackman
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Undergrad Drake equeation and planet finding

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Undergrad Is the amount of matter in the universe infinite?

  • kmbop53
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Graduate Can the gas model theory explain recent satellite observations?

  • Michael Mozina
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Undergrad Someone want to have fun with asteroid simulation?

  • DaveC426913
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Graduate Driving past your opponent in a space race

  • cliowa
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Graduate Time after big bang we can observe, uncertainty principle

  • Finestructure
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Graduate What if matter were holes in a solid vacuum?

  • wolram
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High School What causes the northern lights?

  • gem0688
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Undergrad Is Our Sun Part of a Binary Star System?

  • ptabor
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High School Our universe should be called multiverse and not universe

  • whiteholes
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Graduate Can the cyclic universe work with loop quantum gravity instead of string theory?

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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High School Why does the universe look black?

  • QuantumTheory
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Graduate How Do Aliens and Astronomers Measure Time Differently in the Galaxy Paradox?

  • japam
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Graduate Knowing the environment and the creation of the universe

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Undergrad Proving Pluto's Orbit Inside Neptune's - Maths Investigation

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Graduate Could a Wormhole and Black Holes be Used to Reverse the Big Bang?

  • tribdog
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Graduate Is the Universe a 3D Surface of a 4D Hypersphere?

  • Sheyr
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Graduate Neutrinos, can you explain them to me?

  • Chaos' lil bro Order
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Graduate Occam's Razor and WMAP Anomalies

  • wolram
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Graduate How Do Scientists Measure the Universe's Expansion Rate?

  • salhuneidi
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Graduate Calculating apparent positions of sun and moon

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Undergrad What distinguishes Pre-main-sequence stars from main sequence stars?

  • envanyatar
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Undergrad Why did matter dominate over antimatter after the big bang?

  • wolram
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High School Sun's Position in Our Solar System

  • wolram
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Graduate Do Celestial Objects Compete for Matter?

  • WarrenPlatts
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Undergrad Distance between earth and moon increasing

  • mubashirmansoor
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Did anyone in the UK see a three-lobed halo around the moon last night?

  • wolram
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Stargazing Do astronomers at the 3,000 dollar level become degenerates

  • batboy
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High School What Is the Center in Sloan Digital Sky Survey?

  • batboy
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Undergrad Temp of a Comm Satellite in Orbit Around Earth

  • MonstersFromTheId
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Undergrad Why do stars exhibit red shift and blue shift in our universe?

  • shaan_aragorn
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Graduate Tried to understand how we/ our universe came to be

  • wolram
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